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In a novel by this author, the “fetish”-worshiping “master of energies” is advised by the devout Muslim Tiekoro, the half-brother of a boy who is captured by tondyons and voluntarily boards a slave ship to protect Ayodele. In a novel by this author, the title character sings of a fallen “moonstone” in a lament for her lost child and lives with a Jewish merchant whose nine children are burnt by a mob. This author won the one-off (15[1])2018 “alternative Nobel” (15[1]-5[1])and, at age 89, was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker for The Gospel (*) According to the New World. In a novel by this author, the title wife of John Indian is visited in (10[1])her dreams by Mama Yaya and Hester, (10[1]-5[1])a convicted adulterer whom she befriends (10[1])in a Boston jail. (10[1])This author (10[1])followed generations of a Malian (10[1])family in Segu and retold (10[1])Wuthering Heights in Windward Heights. (10[1])For 10 points, name this late Guadeloupean author who depicted the Salem Witch Trials in I, Tituba. ■END■ (10[3]0[4])

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